Our Troubled Youth

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Our Troubled Youth
Studio album by
Huggy Bear
Released1993
GenreRiot grrrl
LabelKill Rock Stars[1]
Catcall
Huggy Bear chronology
Taking the Rough with the Smooch
(1993) 		Our Troubled Youth
(1993) 		Weaponry Listens to Love
(1994)

Our Troubled Youth is the Huggy Bear side of a split album they released with Bikini Kill (whose side was entitled Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah). It was released on International Women's Day 1993 on Catcall Records in the United Kingdom, and on the Kill Rock Stars label in the United States.[2][3][4]

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic4/5 stars[5]
Robert Christgau(neither)[6]
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music3/5 stars[7]

Influence[]

Gordon Moakes of Bloc Party has cited the album's song "Blow Dry" as being influential to him when he heard it in the early 1990s. In 2008, he wrote that the song "...was so simple, so ugly, so daring. What those two minutes of feedback and scruffy drums warned of was a new language of rock'n'roll that was dangerous, alluring and turned everything that had come before on its head."[8] In 2015, Lisa Wright of NME wrote of the album:

"The whole thing just feels totally instinctive and effortless. From the title onwards, a more perfect teenage punk album you will not find. It’s disenfranchised and impassioned in the most fun way possible."[9]

Track listing[]

No.TitleLength
1."Jupiter Re-Entry" 
2."T-Shirt Tucked In" 
3."Blow Dry" 
4."Nu Song" 
5."Into the Mission" 
6."Hopscortch" 
7."Aqua Girl Star" 
8."February 14th" 

References[]

  1. ^ "Huggy Bear". Kill Rock Stars.
  2. ^ "Bikini Kill Biography". Rolling Stone. Archived from the original on May 7, 2011.
  3. ^ O'Brien, Lucy (2003-10-16). She Bop II: The Definitive History of Women in Rock, Pop and Soul. A&C Black. p. 168. ISBN 9780826435293.
  4. ^ Hutchinson, Kate (2015-01-28). "Riot grrrl: 10 of the best". The Guardian. Retrieved 2017-09-09.
  5. ^ Deming, Mark. "Yeah, Yeah, Yeah, Yeah". AllMusic. Retrieved 2017-09-09.
  6. ^ Christgau, Robert (2000-10-15). Christgau's Consumer Guide: Albums of the '90s. Macmillan. p. 27. ISBN 9780312245603.
  7. ^ Larkin, Colin (2006). The Encyclopedia of Popular Music. Volume 4: MUZE. p. 404.CS1 maint: location (link)
  8. ^ Moakes, Gordon (2008-10-20). "Huggy Bear: a tribute". The Guardian. Retrieved 2017-09-09.
  9. ^ Wright, Lisa (2015-03-06). "100 Lost Albums You Need To Know". NME.

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